Aviezer Tucker (University of Ostrava)

Historiographic Reasoning

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element applies Bayesian insights to explicate historiographic reasoning as probable. It distinguishes epistemic transmission of knowledge from evidence from the generation of detailed historiographic knowledge from multiple coherent and independent evidentiary inputs in three modular stages.

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Produktdetails

• Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781009324502
• ISBN-10: 1009324500
• Artikelnr.: 72182586

Inhaltsangabe

1. Historiographic reason: an introduction
2. 'Empiricist' historiography without reasoning
3. Historiography as self-knowledge without reason
4. Unreasonable historiography: fiction and ideology
5. Historiographic reasoning in unified science
6. Historiographic reasoning as social science
7. Bayesian foundations of historiographic reasoning
8. Transmission vs. Generation of historiographic knowledge
9. Generative historiographic reasoning in three stages
10. History of historiographic reasoning
11. Underdetermination: the limits of historiographic reasoning
12. Counterfactual historiographic reasoning
13. Historiographic reasoning in contexts
14. Invalid and false historiographic reasoning
15. Conclusion: the historical sciences
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